Daily Update: Patco Park hasn't been friendly to Richard

Despite posting a 2.27 earned run average and hold opposing hitters to a .217 average (53-for-244) over his last 11 starts at Petco Park, Richard is just 2-7 at home since the start of the 2010 season. Over the 11-start span, Padres hitters have supplied Richard with a 1.60 run support average.

Richard is 1-2 at Petco Park this season with a 2.21 ERA in three. The Padres have scored exactly one run in each of Richard’s last three starts with two of those starts at Petco Park.

The Daily Five (Notes, Stats and Numbers)

--With Richard and Mark Buehrle working Saturday night, the game lasted two hours and 18 minutes. That matches the fastest Padres game this season. The Padres also finished on 2:18 on April 22 and April 28 at San Francisco. They are now 1-2 in 2:18 games.

--1B Yonder Alonso has hit safely in eight of his last nine games with a .389 average (14-for-36) over the span. Alonso has seven doubles over the last nine games, giving him 10 doubles on the season. That puts him Alonso on a 57-double pace for the season. The Padres record for doubles in a season is 49 by Tony Gwynn in 1997.

--C Nick Hundley, who is getting Sunday off, is 1-for-25 since going 4-for-4 in San Francisco on April 27. That game pushed his batting average to a season-high .254. The slump has dropped him back to .190.

--SS Jason Bartlett is 2-for-24 with seven strikeouts since April 21.

--2B Orlando Hudson has hit safely in 15 of his last 17 games and is hitting .281 (16-for-57) since April 15 with three triples and a home run.